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Wildlife experts to probe tiger death |
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The Times of India , Wednesday, August 17, 2016 |
MYSURU: Experts from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau are expected to arrive in Bandipur Tiger Reserve to study India's first tiger death due to a gunshot wound this year.
A 12-year-old tiger was ...More
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Kawal tigers face poaching threat in Telangana |
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DECCAN CHRONICLE , Wednesday, August 17, 2016 |
Hyderabad: Two tigers, a male and a female, which inhabit the Kawal Tiger Reserve, are under severe threat from poachers. In the past five months three poaching incidents have occurred in the core are ...More
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12-year-old tiger died of bullet injuries: Experts |
Lawrence Milton |
The Times of India , Tuesday, August 16, 2016 |
MYSURU: Forest authorities and doctors on Monday confirmed that the 12-year-old tiger that was found dead in a puddle in Maddur forest range on Sunday, died of a bullet wound - believed to be the firs ...More
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A fourth of Maharashtra tigers are outside reserves |
DHAVAL KULKARNI |
DNA India , Tuesday, August 16, 2016 |
In what points to the need for strengthening conservation measures in non-protected forest areas, an exercise by the state forest department has pointed to how these regions, which fall outside tiger ...More
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Tiger deaths increasing in Bandipur-Nagarahole |
Meera Bhardwaj |
The New Indian Express , Tuesday, August 16, 2016 |
BENGALURU: With the shooting down of an adult male tiger in the Maddur Range of Bandipur Tiger Reserve whose carcass was detected on August 14, the Nagarahole-Bandipur region has already lost 10 tiger ...More
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Four arrested for poaching wild boar |
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The Hindu , Monday, August 15, 2016 |
Four persons have been arrested for erecting an illegal electrified fence around an agricultural land and poaching a wild boar in Gudiyatham Forest Range on Sunday.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of for ...More
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Keonjhar sees 98 jumbo deaths in 16 years |
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Orissa Post , Sunday, August 14, 2016 |
Keonjhar: Wildlife activists and ecologists have voiced concern over the growing loss of elephant habitat in mineral-rich Keonjhar district as World Elephant Day was observed across the globe Friday. ...More
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The Elephant Never Forgets |
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India Currents , Sunday, August 14, 2016 |
With novels constructed on interlocking stories, authors run the risk of one or more of the tales not meeting the same mark on the compelling scale, leaving perhaps, a story that doesn’t hold its own ...More
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Recommendations for curbing rhino poaching |
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The Assam Tribune , Sunday, August 14, 2016 |
GUWAHATI, Aug 13 - With the one-horned rhino facing an unprecedented threat to its existence, something testified to by as many as 49 rhino fatalities including 32 deaths in the recent floods within t ...More
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10 reasons to love elephants this World Elephant Day! |
Aditya Dev |
The Times of India , Saturday, August 13, 2016 |
AGRA: Wildlife SOS has been rescuing wildlife in distress in India since its inception in 1995, and started its elephant rescue program some years later in 2009 with the rescue of Champa, an abused be ...More
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Poaching threat to lions outside Gir, warns IUCN |
Himanshu Kaushik |
The Times of India , Saturday, August 13, 2016 |
AHMEDABAD: Stating that the lion population outside the protected area of Gir Sanctuary has increased by around 400%, the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in its latest report for ...More
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Zoo gets star tortoises, peacocks from Kakinada |
B. MADHU GOPAL |
The Hindu , Friday, August 12, 2016 |
A total of 115 star tortoises arrived at the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (IGZP) here on Thursday from the mini zoo of NagarjunaFertilsers and Chemicals Limited (NFCL), Kakinada. These are in additio ...More
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Pre-monsoon census begins at Kalakkad tiger reserve |
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The Times of India , Friday, August 12, 2016 |
Madurai: The wildlife census ahead of the monsoon commenced in Kalakkad Tiger Reserve on Thursday. The five-day census will count all the predators and prey base inside the tiger reserve, while the sa ...More
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Corbett a cramped home for tigers: Experts |
Nihi Sharma |
The Hindustan Times , Friday, August 12, 2016 |
The Corbett Tiger Reserve is fast turning into a cramped home for tigers, forcing many to move out into buffer zones and villages.
All India Tiger Estimation 2014 says the 1,288 sqkm-large CTR has 21 ...More
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